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Interim health officer finalist Deb Lentz outlines equity, workforce and modernization priorities
Summary
Interim health officer Deb Lentz presented a first-year roadmap focused on workforce stability, equity, community engagement, public-health modernization and visibility; commissioners questioned her on certification, infant mortality disparities and emergency authority.
Deb Lentz, the interim health officer candidate for Kalamazoo County Health and Community Services, told commissioners Dec. 2 that her first-year priorities would center on strengthening internal culture, embedding an equity framework, deepening community partnerships, modernizing systems and increasing the department’s visibility and trust.
Lentz reviewed two decades of experience with Kalamazoo County, including maternal-child-health programs such as Nurse Family Partnership, Healthy Families America and…
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